CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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340 km from Sárospatak to Sárospatak, about 6 h 28 of riding. The stops in between: Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc, Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill, Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov and back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill. It crosses from Hungary into Slovakia - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Sárospatak is an old town on the Bodrog river, right where the foothills of the Zemplén range run out into the plain, and in Hungarian history it carries more weight than its size suggests. It was a seat of the Rákóczi family, and the castle in town was one of their strongholds in the long wars against the Habsburgs. Local tradition also claims it as the birthplace of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary, in 1207, and the Reformed College here, founded in the sixteenth century, once counted the Czech educator Comenius among its teachers. Not bad for a small place at the edge of the map.
Read the complete Rákóczi Wine Cellar write-up.
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Rákóczi Wine Cellar is where the day begins. Next is Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc.
Some wine regions are famous for a grape. Tokaj is famous for rot. Here in north-eastern Hungary, where the volcanic Zemplén hills meet the Great Plain and the Bodrog flows into the Tisza, autumn mists from the rivers encourage noble rot on the grapes, shrivelling them and concentrating their sugar. The berries, picked one by one, become aszú, and the sweet wine made from them has been celebrated for centuries. A line attributed to Louis XIV calls it the wine of kings and the king of wines.
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Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill.
The Szendrő-Rudabánya hills are a modest ridge of low wooded hills in northeastern Hungary, between the Bódva and Sajó valleys, and they are not on any tourist itinerary. That is a large part of their charm. This is the quiet borderland near Slovakia, with small villages, orchards, vineyards and forests of oak and hornbeam, where the roads are empty and the pace slows to that of a cart.
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about 122 km into the recorded legs you reach Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill. Next is Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov.
The Silica plateau is a high, flat limestone table in the Slovak Karst, a few kilometres north of the Hungarian border, and it forms part of the same cross-border UNESCO site as the Aggtelek caves. The label points to the country around Silica and Jasov, a landscape of dry meadows and beech woods broken by sinkholes, gorges and caves, with small villages tucked in the folds. Jasov, in the valley below, has a large Premonstratensian monastery, founded in the thirteenth century, with a grand Baroque church and a cave beneath the hill that is open to visitors. Nearby is the Ochtiná Aragonite Cave, one of very few caves in the world with spiky, branching aragonite crystals.
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Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov, about halfway. Next is back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill.
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Read the complete Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill write-up.
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back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill sits at 192 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc.
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Read the complete Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc write-up.
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back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc comes up about 300 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rákóczi Wine Cellar.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rákóczi Wine Cellar write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Rákóczi Wine Cellar closes the day.
Rákóczi Wine Cellar → Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component neighbouring Silica and Jasov → back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component of Szendrő-Rudabánya Hill → back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → Rákóczi Wine Cellar is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.